Before Nicolas Sarkozy became French president, he was asked if he thought about presidency when he looked in the mirror while shaving. “Not just when I’ m shaving,” he answered.

When Francois Hollande, now president-elect (总统当选人) of France, was asked the same question, he replied: “Do I see myself as president? No, I am a presidential candidate. A candidate must not think himself president; he must give hope that he becomes president.”  

Hollande has promised to be a “normal president” – something Sarkozy certainly was not. Sarkozy celebrated his election in 2007 at a world-class Parisian restaurant. He took holidays on the yachts (游艇) of wealthy businesspeople. Hollande, by contrast, was still going around Paris on his three-wheeled motorbike at the start of this year. One member of his party said he looked “more like a pizza delivery man” than the next president.

“That is the key to Hollande’s success because the election is turning into a sort of referendum (公民投票) for or against Nicolas Sarkozy,” Eric Dupin, a journalist and political observer told Global Post. “Francois Hollande is the one who appears not only as his main opponent politically, but also as his complete opposite psychologically.”

When he was the Socialist party leader, Hollande was nicknamed “the marshmallow (软糖)” because he hated fights. Sarkozy, by contrast, is known to be loud and aggressive.

When faced with Sarkozy’s verbal attacks during the election, Hollande stayed calm. This sometimes annoyed even his own supporters. “I wish he would just let go and savage (用暴力对付) Sarko,” one Hollande voter said to the Guardian.

But Hollande still knows how to fight. Stéphane Le Foll, a Socialist MEP who has been one of Hollande’s closest advisors for 17 years and is co-directing his campaign, said Hollande had quietly planned his presidential bid for 10 years. “I think we all underestimated this guy,” Alain Minc, one of Sarkozy’s closest friends and advisers, told Reuters.

Hollande was born in 1954 into a middle-class family. He lived through the 1968 protests that nearly overthrew the French government. “They shocked him, but also politicized him, he said in a recent interview, making him understand that change was possible,” reported the New York Times. When Hollande was 15, he told friends he expected to become president.

“I didn’t come to the first rank either by chance or by obsession (执迷),” Hollande said in an interview with Reuters. “I got there because I put myself in this situation, and because I deserved it.”

68. By citing Hollande and Sarkozy’s replies to the same question, the author intends to show ________.

A. Sarkozy is more confident than Hollande

B. Hollande is more modest than Sarkozy

C. Hollande is less ambitious than Sarkozy

D. Sarkozy is more humorous than Hollande

69. What is the key to Hollande’s success in the presidential election according to Eric Dupin?

A. His dislike of fights.

B. His careful plan for the presidential bid.

C. How different he is from Sarkozy.

D. The gentle way in which he ran his campaign.

70. What did Hollande think he owed his success to, according to the article?

A. His good luck.                          B. His devotion and efforts.

C. His obsession with politics.        D. His personality and experience.

71. What is the purpose of the article?

A. To show what kind of a person Hollande is.

B. To compare the differences between Hollande and Sarkozy.

C. To show what French people think of Hollande.

D. To explain why Sarkozy lost the election.

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. Money was always tight, but we had a   36   over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always   37  . Not knowing we were poor, my kids(孩子们) just thought I was   38  . I’ve always been glad about that.
It was Christmas time, and although there wasn’t   39   for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a family party. But the big   40   for the kids was the fun of Christmas   41  .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking   42   what they wanted for Christmas. Fortunately, I had saved $120 for   43   to share by all five of us.
The big   44   arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and   45   them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开). We had two hours to shop; then we would   46   back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits,   47   my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually   48  . She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies — fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything   49   we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door,  50   to be angry again. This is what she told me.
“I was looking   51   thinking of what to buy, and I   52   to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees.’ One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she   53   for Christmas was a doll(玩具娃娃). So I took the card off the tree and   54   the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”
I never felt so   55   as I did that day.
36. A. roof                          B. hat                           C. sky                          D. star
37. A. little                          B. less                          C. enough                     D. more
38. A. busy                          B. serious                        C. strict                        D. kind
39. A. effort                        B. room                       C. time                         D. money
40. A. improvement                 B. problem                   C. surprise                    D. excitement
41. A. shopping                    B. travelling                 C. parties                      D. greetings
42. A. the other                    B. each other                C. one by one               D. every other one
43. A. toys                              B. clothes                            C. presents                    D. bills
44. A. day                           B. chance                            C. cheque                            D. tree
45. A. forced                       B. reminded                  C. invited                            D. begged
46. A. draw                         B. stay                         C. move                       D. meet
47. A. including                   B. besides                     C. except                      D. considering
48. A. quiet                         B. excited                     C. happy                      D. ashamed
49. A. since                         B. after                        C. while                       D. until
50. A. waiting                      B. ready                       C. hoping                            D. afraid
51. A. out                              B. over                          C. forward                   D. around
52. A. forgot                        B. stopped                    C. failed                       D. hated
53. A. wanted                      B. did                          C. got                          D. played
54. A. made                         B. searched                   C. bought                            D. fetched
55. A. angry                        B. rich                         C. patient                            D. sad

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the   41  I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any  42  , and nobody seemed to care about his   43 .
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,__44__anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine,  45 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was  46  . I didn’t have the   47 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might  48 me he had died.
Several   49 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I   50  who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was  51 ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n)   52 look on his face, he replied yes. I   53 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever   54 .
He began to tell me how,  55 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could  56 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie  57 believed that it was my voice and  58 that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t  59 him since, he fills my heart with  60 every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.